News

On May 5, the opposition marched in Yerevan, calling on townspeople to join the movement demanding Pashinyan's resignation. The protesters announced large-scale actions and their intention to block traffic in Yerevan from four directions.

Sergey Menyailo, the head of North Ossetia, has presented the relatives of 16 natives of the republic who perished during the military operation in Ukraine with the Order of Courage, including the relatives of Senior Lieutenant Igor Kovalyov and Private Akop Kazaryan, whose deaths were not officially reported earlier.

Alexander Mescheryakov, Evgeny Boiko, Ruslan Mgoev, Oleg Manuilov and Maxim Manzyk have perished in Ukraine; memorial plaques have been installed at the schools where they studied, the head of the Novoaleksandrovsky urban district has informed.

The protesters who gathered near the building of the Azeri Ministry of Education have stated discrimination, suppression of free thought at universities and students' social problems.

An opposition supporter who participated in a protest action in Square of France died of cardiac arrest. The authorities have accumulated a lot of law enforcers near the square, but there is not a single ambulance car near the place of the protest, one of the activists has expressed her indignation.

Nurutdin Mamaev from Buynaksk and Amir Aliskhanov from the village of Yamansu perished in Ukraine.

Insa Lander, a blogger from Kabardino-Balkaria, found herself without money after she was banned from using the Internet under house arrest. The costs of an advocate, a rented apartment, and food are being covered by blogger’s friends, while Insa Lander does not have access to her bank accounts, her friends say.

Rakhilya Mamedova, a mother of convicted journalist and human rights defender Elchin Mamed, called on the President of Azerbaijan to pardon her son. The woman fears that a hunger strike in prison could result in her son’s death.

In Yerevan, the police detained 69 protesters for failure to obey the police. Levon Kocharyan, one of the organizers of the protest action, called a clash between marchers and policemen the result of a provocation by the police.

Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a native of Chechnya, who was sentenced to five years within the case of using violence against law enforcers, has been place into the dungeon (punishment cell).

With account of the anti-Russian sanctions, the North-Caucasus Federal District (NCFD) will mainly develop its agriculture, the transport infrastructure and tourism, including in Dagestan, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) and Chechnya, the Russian government has indicated in the development strategy for Northern Caucasus.

The activists demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, have blocked several streets in Yerevan, the Armenian capital. Law enforcers have detained at least three persons.

The prison administration has refused a council of doctors to visit Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, an ex-president of Georgia, the NGO "Empathy Centre for Psychological Rehabilitation of Torture Victims" has informed. In Tbilisi, protesters demanded to let Saakashvili to go abroad for medical treatment.

In Chechnya, it is realistic to train within a week about two hundred volunteers to be sent to Ukraine, if they already have experience in military service, a military expert has pointed out in his comment on Ramzan Kadyrov's words about training of volunteers.

The Armenian protest movement has the potentials capable to paralyze the state ruling, but the organizers are using them incorrectly, experts believe.

In Azerbaijan, the independent journalists and bloggers who expose corruption are under pressure and persecution, the participants of the conference on the state of media in the country have stated.

The opposition is preparing to storm the parliament building, the National Security Service of Armenia has announced, warning protesters of criminal liability. The parliament building is under heavy police protection.

In Northern Caucasus, transgender people face rejection from their relatives and friends and persecution, and they are exposed to mortal danger, therefore they prefer to hide their sexual orientation and leave their native lands, but they also face difficulties with employment and documents outside their homeland.

The police act aggressively while detaining people at protest actions in Armenia, and a number of activists have been injured, Ombudsperson Kristine Grigoryan reports.

Artilleryman Vadim Shekurov perished in Ukraine, the Temryuk district administration reported. Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, the information about at least 19 perished natives of the Krasnodar Territory has been officially confirmed.